SOME of football's biggest names checked into a local hotel at the weekend (January 3/4), on the eve of Liverpool FC's FA cup tie with Yeovil Town.

Soccer ace Emile Heskey, and Liverpool top brass including manager Gerrard Houllier, and chairman David Moores, spent the Saturday night at Cricket St Thomas Hotel, near Chard.

A party of 18 players and 15 staff including trainers and physiotherapists arrived the hotel on Saturday afternoon.